“For this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, please post a photo that is unusual in some way for you, whether it be through technique, by subject, or in some other unique way.”
Pinned purple petals
Scissors and common pins on a tree stump
Parts of a flower and two ants
Parts of a flower
Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual
“Collage: An assortment, a collection, a hodgepodge. This week, share one — whether found in the wild or assembled yourself.”
Strongylodon macrobotrys. Jade vine. A collection of fallen jade vine flowers. On a bed.
On a dressing table.
Collage?
“For this challenge, interpret the theme “bridge.” You can go the same route as I did and capture any type or style of bridge where you are, or go deeper and take a snapshot of something or someone that acts as a bridge in your life: a link, a connection, a mediator.”
This week, I have gone for the most obvious, most literal interpretation of the topic. Here is a picture of this bridge I saw while on vacation in London last year…
“This week, share a photograph that signifies transitions and change to you. It can be the very beginning of a phase, or the very end. As you pick up your lens, explore the ways in which a single photograph can express time, while only showing us a small portion of any given moment.”
The moon has been doing this for millions of years, “rising” and “setting”, in its different phases…long before we humans were around to witness it. The birds have been gliding across the sky for a far shorter time, but certainly time measured in many millenia. That afternoon, I watched in awe as the moon rose and a flock of birds glided in slow motion, on invisible currents, across the cloudless blue sky. Gliding birds, rising moon, a moment in time….
“For this week’s challenge, show us your perception of transient.”
“This week, share a photo that represents focus to you. Are you a stickler for getting in close to your subjects and capturing every detail, or do you prefer a more ethereal look that illustrates the sensations of the moment? Or both?”
I had left the cup out overnight. In it was a little leftover ginger tea sweetened with honey. In the morning, something else was in the cup…a little lizard.
Having climbed in, it couldn’t get out again.
I like the way in which the tea and the glass and the lizard’s translucent skin affect the focus…
PS I’m adding this a few days after publishing my blog post to assure readers that the little was fine after its ordeal. Right after taking my photos, I rested the cup on its side on a window sill and the lizard crawled out and ran away.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Focus
“This week, share your take on order, whether literal, figurative, or anything in between (and sure — showing it next to a healthy dose of messiness is fine, too). From library stacks to sock drawers and from ancient temples to modern train stations, let your inner disciplinarian take over.”
The Chamber in our Parliament at Gordon House can seem so orderly when it’s empty.
The Speaker of the House has the responsibility to ensure that Members of Parliament observe the rules of order of the House. 
Copies of laws – in weighty tomes – sit in the Chamber, a reminder of the general need for law and order….
